LeaderFolk
28 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -This is LeaderFolk: An Inclusive Look Inside the Jewish Community. Join us each week for a conversation about what it means to be a woman, non-binary or genderqueer individual working as, what we like to call, a “professional Jew.” Tune in for explorations of the unique triumphs and challenges that face these Jewish community leaders at the blurry intersection between the professional and the personal. Welcome to the table, we’re saving a spot for you!
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26. Kathryn Fleisher & Zoe Terner
October 23, 2020 11:40 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBAs we approach the second anniversary of the tragic shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Sara talks with Kathryn Fleisher and Zoe Terner of Not My Generation, a youth-led, gun violence prevention organization. Kathryn shares about how the Tree of Life shooting inspired her to take action and form NMG. Both young women speak about how their leadership skills and passion for justice were developed and nurtured in the Jewish community. https://notmygenerationgvp.org/
25. Sally Abrams and Holly Brod Farber
October 09, 2020 11:35 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBSally Abrams and Holly Brod Farber of the JCRC of Minnesota and the Dakotas join Sara to talk about the value of their long-lasting collaborative partnership and their latest initiative, The Letters Project. http://minndakjcrc.org/letters @jcrcminndak
24. Rabbi Jessy Dressin
October 02, 2020 12:30 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MBRabbi Jessy Dressin is the executive director of Repair the World Baltimore and serves as the rabbi for Repair the World at the national level. She pops on to chat with Sara about generational shifts in our Jewish communities, Jewish activism, and leading from a place of authenticity and humility. www.werepair.org https://jewsofcolorinitiative.org/ https://www.myjewishlearning.com/eli-talks/the-new-wanderers-god-millennials-and-jewish-engagement/ (more on the mishkan movement) https://www.po...
23. Rabbi Elyssa Cherney
September 25, 2020 12:00 - 36 minutes - 33 MBRabbi Elyssa Cherney (and her son Zeke!) appears on this week's episode to discuss her organization, TacklingTorah, and how to approach meaningful Jewish engagement for those whose Jewish education left off around b'nai mitzvah age. @tacklingtorah for both Instagram and Facebook, and www.tacklingtorah.com
22. Dubbs Weinblatt
September 18, 2020 12:00 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBDubbs Weinblatt joins Sara this week for a conversation about LGBT+ advocacy in the Jewish community and beyond. Dubbs melds their experiences as an improviser and Keshet's Associate Director of Education and Training in the New York Metro area to create meaningful opportunities for queer/LGBTQ+ individuals to share their stories. https://www.keshetonline.org http://thankyouforcomingout.com http://dubbsweinblatt.com http://transformation2020.org
21. Tamar Ghidalia
August 28, 2020 11:30 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBTamar Ghidalia is a Jew of Color of Sephardic heritage. She joins Sara to speak on her work consulting on Jewish education, arts infused education, and racial equity, diversity, and inclusion as well as how she maintains her connection to her Sephardic roots through music. www.tamarghidalia.com/ www.edotmidwest.org/
20. Dyonna Ginsburg
August 21, 2020 11:00 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBWhile the pandemic has forced our attention closer and closer to home, increasingly hyperlocal, Dyonna Ginsburg, CEO of Olam, speaks with Sara about keeping a global perspective. https://olamtogether.org/ https://olam.swoogo.com/FocalPoint2020 @olamtogether
19. Rabbi Caryn Aviv
August 14, 2020 11:30 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MBAfter many years as a professor, Rabbi Caryn Aviv realized that the university system was restricting her priorities and the kinds of connections she wanted to build. Now on the rabbinic team at Judaism Your Way in Denver, Colorado, Rabbi Caryn joins us to speak about feminism, taking the gender binary out of the b'nai mitzvah process, and more. http://www.judaismyourway.org/
18. Amy Schilit Benarroch
August 07, 2020 12:05 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBAmy Schilit Benarroch's Righteous Crowd is an exciting, modern way to weave tzedakah into our daily lives. Listen to hear more about Righteous Crowd and Amy's passion for Jewish education. www.righteouscrowd.org www.facebook.com/righteouscrowd
17. Ariele Mortkowitz
July 31, 2020 12:00 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MBAriele Mortkowitz, the creator of Svivah, joins Sara for a joyous conversation about building an intentional community amongst Jewish women. www.svivah.org www.facebook.org/wearesvivah www.facebook.com/groups/SVIVAHhearsyou/ www.instagram.com/wearesvivah our email: [email protected]
16. Miriam Kabakov
July 24, 2020 11:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBMiryam Kabakov, executive director of Eshel, joins Sara and speaks about her Jewish journey and her work to support and advocate for LGBTQ+ individuals in the Orthodox Jewish community. http://eshelonline.org http://funorthodox.com https://yenteovertherainbow.com https://jewishwomen.org/initiatives/collective/
15. Amanda Katz
July 17, 2020 12:00 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBAmanda Katz, executive director of the Jewish Coalition Against Domestic Abuse, joins Sara to discuss power-based violence, the challenges of continuing to serve vulnerable community members from afar and managing work-life balance during the pandemic. http://www.jcada.org facebook.com/JewishCoalitionAgainstDomesticAbuse twitter.com/JCADA_ORG www.instagram.com/jcada_org www.facebook.com/amanda.c.katz www.linkedin.com/in/amandackatz www.instagram.com/katzamanda319/
14. Kelly Cohen
July 10, 2020 12:00 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBKelly Cohen, director of JumpSpark, speaks passionately with Sara about innovation in Jewish teen engagement and how teenagers are not just the Jewish leaders of our future, but are Jewish leaders in our current moment. @JumpSparkATL (Facebook and Instagram) Roadtriptocollege.org JumpSparkATL.org https://www.parshastorybookproject.com/
13. Karen Erlichman
July 03, 2020 12:00 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBKaren Erlichman joins Sara this week to discuss how her work as a Jewish communal professional intersects with her work as a therapist and a spiritual director. We also explore the feeling of being an outsider within the Jewish community and what our organizations and spaces can do to become truly welcoming. https://karenerlichman.com www.jewishstudioproject.org Twitter: @KEreplenish Instagram: @kereplenish
12. Dana Levinson Steiner
June 26, 2020 12:00 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBDana Levinson Steiner joins Sara to talk about developing new generations of creative Jewish leaders and what it means to cultivate diverse leadership in our organizations. Twitter: @DSteinerACCESS Instagram: @dlsteiner87 AJC Instagram: @ajc.global
11. Caroline Rothstein
June 19, 2020 12:00 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBCaroline Rothstein, internationally touring performer, poet, and Jewish leader, speaks openly with Sara about creating cultures of consent within our Jewish communities. Using this framework of consent as a jumping-off point, we explore the complicated ways that Jewish identity intersects with white supremacy and how transparency and consent create spaces for our fullest, most authentic selves. Website: https://www.carolinerothstein.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/cerothstein Instagram: ht...
10. Stephanie Goldfarb
June 12, 2020 11:05 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBStephanie Goldfarb, director of community engagement for Honeymoon Israel Chicago, joins Sara for a discussion about her intersectional work at Honeymoon Israel and how grassroots Jewish projects, like Stephanie's Seven Species Supper Club, can be powerful communal touchpoints. www.honeymoonisrael.org instagram.com/foodfarb
9. Beckee Birger
June 05, 2020 11:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBWhy does this moment, from the killing of George Floyd to the subsequent protests nationwide, resonate more strongly and activate our communities more viscerally than previous examples of police brutality or violent racism? This is just one question that we pose to Beckee Birger this week. Beckee also speaks about her amazing work developing future generations of justice-oriented, Jewish philanthropists through her work as the Program Director for Teen Leadership and Philanthropy for the Jewi...
8. Carrie Bornstein
May 29, 2020 12:00 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MBCarrie Bornstein, executive director of Mayyim Hayyim, swings by to talk about her experiences taking over for a founding executive director (Fun fact: She took over for Aliza Kline, our first ever LeaderFolk guest!), becoming a surrogate as an ED, and managing family-life boundaries as a Jewish leader. http://Mayyimhayyim.org http://Risingtideopenwaters.org http://Theresnoiinuterus.wordpress.com
7. Sara Shapiro-Plevan
May 22, 2020 11:05 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBSara Shapiro-Plevan, co-founder of the Gender Equity in Hiring Project and the founder of Rimonim Consulting, is a leader when it comes to improving and implementing gender equity in Jewish communal leadership. Her background as a congregational educator serves as an important foundation for her work and her conversation on this week's episode. https://www.facebook.com/jwequity/ https://www.instagram.com/genderequityinhiringproject/
6. Rabbi Julia Appel
May 15, 2020 11:00 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBRabbi Julia Appel joins Sara to discuss design thinking in relation to Jewish community innovation. Inspired by her work with college students and within more typical congregational environments, Rabbi Julia shares what's next: Bina Community Circles. https://www.binacommunitycircles.org/ https://m.facebook.com/binacommunitycircles/
5. Gabi Arad
May 08, 2020 11:00 - 31 minutes - 29 MBRabbi Gabi Arad joins Sara this week to talk intentional community innovation and how our Jewish communities can thrive online during this difficult time. Gabi is a rabbi cantor and co-founder of the Jewish Collaborative of San Diego.
4. Miriam Steinberg-Egeth
May 01, 2020 13:00 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBMiriam Steinberg-Egeth joins us this week to talk boundaries as a Jewish professional. She discusses her professional versus personal presence in the community, how a patchwork of part-time Jewish work may be her ultimate goal, and how working from home has evolved over the past few months in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.jewishexponent.com/category/community/miriams-advice-well/ The Center City Kehillah: https://centercityjews.org/
Caroline Kessler, Ava Rosen, and Arielle Tonkin
April 24, 2020 11:50 - 47 minutes - 40.7 MBThis week we chat with Caroline Kessler, Ava Rosen, and Arielle Tonkin, three Bay Area artists and Jewish leaders. We discuss the intersections of their art and their Judaism, time as a secular and a religious concept, and the ideas of "exercising leadership" and of leading by creating opportunities. and other tags/links/etc they provided since recording: arielle & ava's mutual aid creative practice space throughout shelter-in-place: https://linktr.ee/mutualaidmaterials @mutualaidmaterials ...
3. Caroline Kessler, Ava Rosen, and Arielle Tonkin
April 24, 2020 11:50 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBThis week we chat with Caroline Kessler, Ava Rosen, and Arielle Tonkin, three Bay Area artists and Jewish leaders. We discuss the intersections of their art and their Judaism, time as a secular and a religious concept, and the ideas of "exercising leadership" and of leading by creating opportunities. and other tags/links/etc they provided since recording: arielle & ava's mutual aid creative practice space throughout shelter-in-place: https://linktr.ee/mutualaidmaterials @mutualaidmaterials ...
2. Samantha Vinokor-Meinrath
April 17, 2020 11:00 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBThis week, we sit down with Samantha Vinokor-Meinrath. She is the Associate Director of Adolescent Initiatives for the Jewish Education Center of Cleveland and is completing her doctorate in Jewish Education at Gratz College. We discuss Samantha's research into Jewish teen engagement, body image in the Jewish community, and how to think Jewishly about our large, intersectional lives. samanthavinokormeinrath.com/ @sam_vinokor on Instagram https://www.jecc.org/
1. Aliza Kline
April 10, 2020 11:00 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBWelcome to LeaderFolk! Aliza Kline, founding executive director of OneTable, joins us for a moving conversation about customizing Jewish rituals and shaping our Jewish practices to infuse our lives with meaning and grounding, especially in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. https://onetable.org https://onetable.org/shabbatshalone/
LeaderFolk Teaser Promo
March 13, 2020 23:20 - 1 minute - 966 KBThis is LeaderFolk: An Inclusive Look Inside the Jewish Community. Join us bi-monthly, that’s twice a month, for a conversation about what it means to be a woman, non-binary or genderqueer individual working as, what we like to call, a “professional Jew.” Tune in for explorations of the unique triumphs and challenges that face these Jewish community leaders at the blurry intersection between the professional and the personal. Welcome to the table, we’re saving a spot for you!